Famous quotes containing the words cleft, lip and/or palate:
“It is the sinners dust-tongued bell claps me to churches
When, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulphur priest,
His beast heel cleft in a sandal....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)